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Prota Therapeutics, a newly established Australian company, is developing MCRI’s patented probiotic immunotherapy for treating food allergies. You can visit Prota Therapeutics’s website to learn more. Prota Therapeutics is commercialising a world first peanut allergy treatment using probiotics developed by Professor Mimi Tang at the MCRI.

Three of Australia’s child health leaders have joined forces to tackle global child health – the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital and the University of Melbourne have launched a new initiative, Melbourne Children’s Global Health.

Genetic counselling is one of the rarest jobs in Australia – with only 230 employed nationwide. Genetic counsellors work in many areas of medicine, including paediatrics, prenatal, infertility, neurology, cancer and cardiology. Many counsellors work directly with patients, while others carry out research in public laboratories and for industry.

Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) has attracted $34.2 million funding in the latest National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Grant Application Round. The funding has been awarded to 41 grants across the institute, which is an overall success rate of more than 31 per cent – significantly higher than the national rate of 19.5 per cent.

Medical researchers at Melbourne’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute have made a new discovery about how a baby’s sex is determined – it’s not just about the X-Y chromosomes, but involves a ’regulator’ that increases or decreases the activity of genes which decide if we become male or female.

Professor Melissa Little, Theme Director of Cell Biology at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, one of the highest honours an Australian scientist can receive

New research led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), has combined gene editing technology with stem cell kidney regeneration to correct a patient’s gene mutation. This is the first time a patient has had kidney regenerated from their stem cells in Australia.